What is Bio-Ontology?

What is bio-ontology? Well, on one level it is pretty straightforward. It is the study of how living systems organize information, how they come to understand themselves, and how they make sense of the worlds they inhabit. On another level, none of that is straightforward. More than 200 theories of consciousness have been proposed.\[1\] We do not really know how minds come to be. A great deal of work has been done on how neural systems store information, but even that account remains incomplete and contested. The essays on this site investigate different parts of the problem: how living systems evolved awareness and self-awareness; how they acquired the ability to...